Particle Accelerator Science and Technology (PAST) Committee

The Particle Accelerator Science and Technology (PAST) committee is one of the technical committees of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society.

Particle Accelerator Conference

PAST co-sponsors the Particle Accelerator Conference along with the APS Division of Physics of Beams.

The Particle Accelerator Conference has been held biannually since 1965. It is the principal conference in the United States devoted broadly to the Science and Technology of Particle Accelerators. The conference was created under the auspices of the IEEE. The PAST committee of NPSS continues that tradition in cooperation with the Division of Physics of Beams of the American Physical Society.  The Particle Accelerator Conference is governed by an Organizing Committee. The Bylaws of the North American PAC are available in this link as a pdf file.

PAC07, the 22nd Particle Accelerator Conference, was held at the Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 25-29,2007. Los Alamos National Laboratory hosted the conference with Stan Schriber as Conference Chair and Bob Garnett as Scientific Program Chair.

PAC’09 took place 4-8 May 2009 in Vancouver, B.C. at the Fairmont Hotel, Vancouver, the same conference hotel as PAC 85 & PAC 97. The Conference Chair was Paul Schmor. The Program Chair was Shane Koscielniak.

PAC’11 will take place in New York City at March 28 to April 1, 2011 in New York City’s Marriott Marquis on 46th Street and Broadway, which was the site of PAC’99. The Conference Chair is Tom Roser. The Program Chair is Vladimir Litvinenko.

IPAC2011 will be held in San Sebastian, Spain on September 4 - 9, 2011. Oliver Bruening is Organizing Committee Chair and Andy Wolski is Scientific Program Committee Chair.

Proceedings of recent PAC conferences are available via IEEE Xplore (search for Particle Accelerator Conference) or the JACoW Website.

Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Technical Committee Membership and Activities

Members of the Committee are the PAST TC Chair who is appointed bythe IEEE NPSS President, the past TC Chair, elected PAST NPSS AdCom members at large, the chair of the last PAC and the chair of theupcoming PAC.

The Bylaws of the NPSS PAST TC areavailable in this link as a pdf file.

The current membership is:

Stan Schriber, (MSU), chair for term 1/2009 - 12/2012.
Ilan Ben-Zvi (BNL), past chair
Bruce Brown (FNAL), former past chair.
Sandra Biedron (ANL), elected member.
Paul Schmor (TRIUMF), PAC’09 chair.
Thomas Roser (BNL), PAC’11 chair.
Vic Suller (LSU), IPAC'12 chair.

In addition to the Particle Accelerator Conference, the PAST committee will leverage the NPSS and IEEE resources to promote accelerator science and technology. IEEE member recruitment and advancement (IEEE Senior Member and IEEE Fellow Nomination) are supported. Please contact the PAST chair with your comments, proposals and suggestions.

PAST Award

The IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society invites nominations for the
   Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Award
Two Awards will be granted to recognize outstanding contributions to the development of Particle Accelerator Science and Technology. Further details can be found at Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Award (PAST Award).

PAST Doctoral Student Award

The IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society invites nominations for the
   Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Doctoral Student Award
This Award is given to recognize significant and innovative technical contributions to the field of particle accelerator science and technology as demonstrated in a student’s doctoral thesis. More details can be found at Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Doctoral Student Award

Accelerator Related Conference Links

The accelerator community is served by many conferences and workshops in addition to the Particle Accelerator Conference. In addition to links provided below, there are conference links provided by

Other NPSS Conferences for Accelerator Science

JACoW and Conferences

The Joint Accelerator Conferences Website is maintained to provide online access to the proceedings from several accelerator-related JACoW Collaboration Conferences. The collaborating conferences now include: APAC, EPAC, PAC, COOL, CYCLOTRONS, DIPAC, FEL, ICALEPCS, ICAP,ICFA Advanced Beam Dynamics Workshops, LINAC, RUPAC. Please see the JACoW link for access to the proceedings.

Accelerator Training

Academic Training in the field of accelerators and beams isprovided in both special settings like USPAS and in traditionalacademic departments.The USPAS provided links for many other programs: USPAS

Useful Links

ICFA the International Committee for Future Accelerators sponsors a numberof activities of interest to the accelerator community. Some workshop links are shown above. In addition, there are several ICFA Panels on specialized accelerator topics:

Complaints, suggestions, comments, should be sent to: Bruce C. Brown or Stan Schriber.
Updated December 20, 2010.

Membership

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You may become an NPSS Affiliate Member if your professional interests are in the fields covered by NPSS, but you do not desire the additional benefits derived from belonging to the parent IEEE Organization. You will be entitled to all the benefits of NPSS but not of IEEE. Further information can be found on the NPSS Membership link.